By Emaline Ashe The Silent Pain of Unexplained Infertility
Twenty-five years ago, my husband and I were young, healthy, and ready to have several children. Life had different plans…
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By Laura Niebauer Palmer If You Fear Becoming Your Mother, Remember the Cycle Ends With You
How desperately I wish you could read this as you stand at the precipice of parenthood. I know how scared…
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By Kimberly Willingham Hubbard God Tasked Us With Raising Beautiful People in a Fallen World
Today, I watched my little boy put an oven mitt over his hand and mix up an imaginary meal. Like…
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By Kelley Friedland You See Your Parents in a New Light When You Become One Yourself
Dear kids not yet parents, You may feel much of the story of your parents through the ways they raise…
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By Drew Forsman To the Stay At Home Mom From Your Husband: I See You
To the woman who sacrificed her comfort zone—leaving her family, friends, and everything she'd ever known—to follow her new husband…
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Your Marriage Isn’t Breaking—The First Year of Parenthood Really Just is This Hard
“I just don’t know if we’re going to make it,” a friend texted me a few weeks back. I imagined…
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By Brandon Janous Pray For the Dad Who Is His Son’s First Hero and His Daughter’s First Love
As dads, we are our sons' first hero and our daughters' first love. With that comes a ton of pressure,…
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By Melissa McGuire There’s No Guidebook For Pandemic Parenting
I stand there looking at the 6-pack of peanut butter crackers and tears well up in my eyes. The tears…
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By Shannon Whitmore We Started a Family Right Away—And Don’t Regret it For a Second
I was 26 when I got married and 27 when I gave birth to my first child. My husband and…
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By Dana Frutos Love Your Kids With All Your Might
As a child care provider and educator, there has always been so much I’ve wanted to tell parents. There are…
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By Mandy Thudium Nothing Can Prepare You For Parenthood, But You Learn
Two of our best friends had a baby this week. As I humbly held their child, so new to this…
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By Joe Principe When Dads Do More, We Set Our Kids Up For the Future
When we were little, our fathers went to work, had little to do with childcare, were the breadwinners, and did…
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